Table of Contents of Family Histories and Biographies
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~ John E Young
Wellsboro Agitator, July 28, 1937, p.1
Old Pioneer Family has many Descendants in this Section
Edward Hackett was a Sergeant in the Revolutionary war. He served in Capt. Abiel Pierce's company of Minute Men, of which the following history is on file in the secretary's office at Boston, Mass. The first three companies that entered the revolutionary war were organized at Freetown, and Middleborough, Mass., right under the nose of the British, Col. Gilbert. The organization was called Minute Men, and were to enter the war at a moment's notice, either by day or night and was led by Captain Abiel Pierce and was the first company to enter the Revolutionary war and participated in the battles of Lexington and Concord.
Edward Hackett later served in the Ninth Regiment of the Albany Militia. After the war, in 1798, he and his son-in-law Seth Booth were pioneer settlers at Locke, Cayuga county, NY. They cleared land and built cabins and six months later sent to Freetown, Mass., for their families, who traveled with ox teams from Freetown to Locke, which required two weeks. This was the only means of transportation at that period.
Edward Hackett received a pension annually of $66.66. He had 13 children. Some remained in Massachusetts, others settled in New York, and five of his children were pioneer settlers in Chatham and Clymer townships, Tioga county.
Hundreds of Edward Hackett's descendants reside in Tioga, Bradford, Potter and Lycoming counties. Mrs. George Knapp of Snedekerville, Bradford county, is the secretary and treasurer of the Hackett reunion.
Cole Family Records
Many Served in Revolutionary
War—Isaiah Cole an Early Tioga County Settler.
Buckport, Maine, March 15,
1934._Editor Wellsboro Agitator; Dear Sir: I send you the records of the
famous Cole family who were among the early settlers of Tioga county. This
statement has been denied by a few people, but these records are intact and
reliable in every detail from history pages as well as family bible
records. Isaiah Cole settled on the Tioga River near my mother's present
home on the Smith farm in Tioga, Pa. The ruins are still there. Isaiah Cole
was given an English land grant of five thousand acres and the Dutch and
Indians claimed it was theirs and ran Cole out, and he built his second
cabin where St. Mary's church stands today in Corning, N. Y. He was the
father of 16 children and my great-grandfather, Venus Cole, was one of
them. Inclosed you will find the Revolutionary war records of some of these
Coles, our family as well as the ones in Steuben and Tioga Counties, N. Y.
and Pennsylvania. You will find 12 generations also. There may be of
interest in Tioga county and you may publish them. We are not ashamed of
the Cole family. There are statesmen, doctors, lawyers, judges among them,
and they are Americans, every one. The 12 generations are listed by Delia
Cole Williamson Good and are correct since 1633—William, Kingston, Henry,
William, Isaiah, James, Tunis, Ezikiel, John, James, Sarah Anne Cole, Delia
Cole Williamson Good. I hope these records will end a dispute about the
Cole family records.—Joseph A. Warren, StaRoute, Bucksport, Maine. Official
Revolutionary war records compiled by Elias Stockton; recorded by Wr.
Stryker, Adjutant General—
Aaron
Cole, Capt. Martin’s Co.; 4th Battalion; Abram Cole, Spencer’s
Regiment, Continental Army; Abram Cole, 3rd Regt., Continental
Army; Andrew Cole, 2nd Battalion, Continental; Benjamin Cole,
Lamb’s Artillery, 2nd Regt., Continental Army; Henry Cole, 1st
Batt. Second Establishment; John Cole, Spencer’s Regt., Cont. Army; Richard
Cole, 3rd Batt., Cont. Army; Isaiah Cole, Captain, 2nd
Regt., Sussex; Daniel Cole, sergeant artillery, Continental Army; Aaron
Cole, Essex, Artillery, Cont. Army. Enlistments in Continental Army –
Abram, Joseph, Daniel, Henry, James, John, Morris Cole, of Essex, N.J.;
Samuel of Bergen County, N.J.; Samuel of Sussex County, N.J.; William, First
Regiment, died March 15, 1778, while a prisoner.
Wellsboro Agitator – March 21, 1934 typed as written
Star
Gazette – February 13, 2012
See J. Kelsey Jones Family Histories for Wells, Columbia, Jackson, Rutland, and South Creek Townships in PA and Town of Southport in NY.